How to use travis-ci to check your application code and the smart contract

Hyperledger projects code structure

Travis-CI is one of the most used continuous delivery platforms for open source projects. In order to check your hyperledger blockchain application you need to check at least two different languages in the same travis-ci configuration, as your smart contract is written in GOlang and your application most likely in Javascript or Python or whatever(tm).

Each part of the project (smart contract, backend, frontend) is in a separate directory and has a code part and a unit test part. Without getting into details on how to run unit tests for each language we concentrate now on the .travis file.

We have two tests for python (one with 2.7 the other one with the latest nightly build), one for the javascript (no unit test in this example) and the GO part.

Important are lines 29 and 30. Before we run the go build we create the directory for hyperledger and check out manually the official hyperledger code with the v0.6 branch. After that we can normally build the smart contract by calling go build ./